Blac chyna donates to orphanage in Nigeria
America’s socialite and baby mama of Rob Kardashian has donated some items to an orphanage in Nigeria after the launch of her skin whitening products.
The mother of two paid a visit to the BAB-ES-SALAM orphanage in Lagos, Nigeria and donated some food items to them.
She posted a video on her Instagram page with the caption; “Visiting BAB-ES-SALAM orphanage was a fulfilling experience in Lagos, Nigeria. It was amazing to see the apparent open hearts and to hear about the children’s dreams. It left me filled with emotions, their excitement was an amazing feeling and a humbling experience. I can’t wait to visit again”.
However, some celebrities were against the launch of Blac Chyna’s skin whitening products and advised Nigerians to boycott the launch.
The celebrities included Ghanaian-British musician, Fuse ODG and Nigerian Singer Burna Boy.
They advised Africans to be proud of their dark skin and not apply any cosmetics to their body to make them lighter or bleach them with the primitive notion that it will make them more beautiful.
Well, it’s obvious this didn’t stop Blac Chyna from launching her products and also embarking on a charity project.
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Julie Chen Moonves returning to CBS to host ‘Big Brother’ after husband was ousted by for sexual misconduct
After weeks of speculation, CBS has confirmed that Julie Chen Moonves will return as host of “Big Brother” after seemingly breaking with the network over its ousting of her husband, disgraced former CEO Les Moonves.
According to a press release announcing a slew of returning midseason programming for the network, Chen Moonves was confirmed as the host of “Big Brother: Celebrity Edition” Season 2. A spinoff to the long-running reality series, which puts contestants in a house outfitted with cameras, the celebrity version will air multiple nights for three weeks until the stars whittle themselves down to one winner.
While a second season of “Big Brother: Celebrity Edition” seemed inevitable, there was a lot of confusion about longtime host Chen Moonves’ involvement. She previously left her role at “The Talk” in September after at least 12 women came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against Leslie. After her husband was booted from his high-powered position, Chen Moonves followed suit in what seemed to be an act of solidarity.
“I have been at ‘The Talk’ since the day it started nine years ago and the cast, crew and staff have become family to me over the years. But right now, I need to spend more time at home with my husband and our young son, so I have decided to leave ‘The Talk,’” Chen Moonves said in a pre-taped announcement at the time.
Despite taking a long break from working with the network, many were still curious as to whether or not she would remain as the host of “Big Brother.” While Season 21 of the flagship series has not yet been officially announced, Deadline reports that Chen Moonves’ contract includes “Celebrity Edition” and at least one more season of the regular version.
“Big Brother: Celebrity Edition” is set to return in January.
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Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee’s cause of death revealed
Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee died from heart failure and breathing issues, TMZ confirmed Monday.
According to Lee’s death certificate, the 95-year-old comic book icon’s primary causes of death was heart and respiratory failure.
He also suffered from aspiration pneumonia, a condition in which a patient inhales stomach acid, saliva or food into their lungs.
Lee passed away on Nov. 12 at 9:17 a.m. PT at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
The death certificate notes that Lee’s remains were cremated and given to his daughter, J.C. Lee.
A small, private funeral was held for the Spider-Man co-creator earlier this month in accordance with his wishes.
Lee suffered from several medical issues leading up to his death, including pneumonia, an irregular heartbeat and vision issues.
His wife of nearly 70 years, Jane, passed away in 2017 at age 93.
In a video released posthumously, Lee expressed mutual admiration for his fans.
“There’s something if you think about it, that is wonderful about somebody caring about you, as I care about them, whom you’ve never met, who may live in another part of the world,” he said. “But they care, you have something in common and occasionally you contact each other. This business of fans, I think is terrific. And I love ’em all.”
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Tekashi 6ix9ine limps into court to plead not guilty to racketeering
Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine limped into a Manhattan courtroom on Monday to plead not guilty to charges that he’s a violent, drug-dealing gang member — as his lawyer revealed that he was transferred to another jail because of “threats” from his co-defendants.
The rainbow-haired rapper, who sported his signature braids and navy prison scrubs, looked glum as he and three other alleged gangbangers were hauled back into Manhattan federal court a week after they were indicted on racketeering and firearms charges.
The courtroom, which was packed with relatives, erupted into laughter as Assistant US Attorney Michael Longyear laid out the litany of charges against the men.
He said there is surveillance video that links Tekashi to an April 21 shooting at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, where the “Gummo” rapper was set to perform an entrance song for one of the boxers on the evenings card.
“Who sang the intro song?” Judge Paul Engelmayer asked, prompting the chuckles.
“I don’t have that information,” Longyear replied.
Tekashi and his crew were at the venue for the bout between Adrien Broner and Jessie Vargas, one of three fights on the card that evening. But on their way to a VIP area, they were confronted by a rival rap crew and that’s when someone from Tekashi’s entourage squeezed off a single shot, TMZ reported at the time. No one was hit.
A .32-caliber shell was found at the scene but not processed after it was handled by arena staff. Tekashi and his pals stayed behind for police interviews — and none were found with a weapon.
Prosecutors accuse Tekashi, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, and five others of terrorizing the city as members of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, an offshoot of the nationwide street gang.
Also charged are his just-fired manager, Kifano Jordan aka “Shottie,” and three former associates, Faheem “Crippy” Walter, Jensel “Ish” Butler and Jamel “Mel Murda” Jones.
All but Walter, who wasn’t in the courtroom, pleaded not guilty.
Last week, The Post reported that Tekashi was transferred from a federal jail in Brooklyn to an undisclosed lockup due to threats to his life.
Outside the courtroom, his lawyer Lance Lazzaro said he’s in a “facility in Queens.”
“He was moved because of his co-defendants’ threats,” Lazzaro said. “He is pretty good but he’s not happy.”
His co-counsel, Dawn Florio, added, “He’s safe but he’s not happy to be in jail.”
Tekashi was mysteriously moved out of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn last week after also receiving threats from “other gang-affiliated inmates” while in general population, Lazzaro said.
Asked about Tekashi’s noticeable limp, the lawyer said, “he has not been attacked in jail” and blamed the impairment on the cuffs around his ankles.
Prosecutors said they’re pouring through Hernandez’s three cell phones and his social media, including Snapchat and Instagram, as well as his iCloud and email.
They alleged Tekashi filmed an April robbery in Times Square and that some of the ill-gotten gains, including jewelry, were found at his Brooklyn home in September.
Longyear said the suspected gang members were also responsible for other acts of violence.
“The purposes of the enterprise included preserving and protecting the power, territory, and profits of the enterprise through acts involving murder … and threats of violence,” he said.
Walter wasn’t in court Monday because he was taken back to the hospital related to gunshot injuries he suffered in a scuffle with restaurant security last month.
Walter faces gang assault charges in the brawl at Philippe Chow.
Tekashi, who was shackled at the hands and ankles and seated in the jury box in front of his three co-defendants, didn’t once turn around to look at them. Instead, he stared into space and looked up at the ceiling.
As the men were led out of court, Jordan shouted to the gallery, “I love all my family. We don’t fall, we don’t bend, we don’t break” and then, “Entertainment.”
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‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ creator Stephen Hillenburg dies at 57
Stephen Hillenburg, creator of the megahit Nickelodeon cartoon series “SpongeBob SquarePants,” died Monday. He was 57.
The cause of death was ALS, which Hillenburg revealed he had been diagnosed with in March of last year.
“We are incredibly saddened by the news that Steve Hillenburg has passed away following a battle with ALS,” Nickelodeon said in a statement. “He was a beloved friend and long-time creative partner to everyone at Nickelodeon, and our hearts go out to his entire family. Steve imbued ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ with a unique sense of humor and innocence that has brought joy to generations of kids and families everywhere. His utterly original characters and the world of Bikini Bottom will long stand as a reminder of the value of optimism, friendship and the limitless power of imagination.”
Hillenburg graduated from Humboldt State University in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in natural resource planning and interpretation, with an emphasis on marine resources. He then became a marine biology teacher at the Orange County Marine Institute (now the Ocean Institute) in Dana Point, California. This interest, combined with his artistic talent and love of the sea and its creatures, led him to write and illustrate stories as teaching tools with characters that would later become the denizens of SpongeBob’s home, Bikini Bottom.
He began his animation career in 1987, pursuing a degree in experimental animation at the California Institute of Arts in Valencia and earning his master of fine arts in 1992.
That same year, he won an award for Best Animated Concept at the Ottawa International Animation Festival for his animated short “Wormholes,” which went on to be shown at various international animation festivals. From 1993 to 1996, he would pursue work in television as a director and writer on Nickelodeon’s series “Rocko’s Modern Life.”
From there, he began to work full-time on writing, producing and directing the animated series that would eventually become “SpongeBob SquarePants.” The first episode aired on Nickelodeon on May 1, 1999, and the series commenced its full run on July 17 of that year. The series has aired nearly 250 episodes to date. It appealed not only to children but older viewers as well, with college students even organizing viewing parties for the show.
The series has won both US and British Emmy Awards, Annie Awards and ASACP Awards and has been dubbed or subtitled in more than 60 languages, including Urdu, Azerbaijani and Maori.
Hillenburg also wrote, produced and directed “The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie,” which was released in 2004 and went on to gross over $140 million worldwide. Hillenburg then wrote the story for and was the executive producer of the sequel, “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water,” in 2015.
Hillenburg — or Steve as he was known to family, friends and fans — was born Aug. 21, 1961, at Fort Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma. After leaving the military, his father, Kelly N. Hillenburg Jr., became a draftsman and designer for aerospace companies. His mother, Nancy, taught visually impaired students.
He is survived by his wife of 20 years, Karen Hillenburg, son Clay, mother Nancy Hillenburg (nee Dufour) and brother Brian Kelly Hillenburg, his wife, Isabel, and nieces Emma and Hazel.
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Employee shot dead in Pennsylvania municipal building
CRESCO, Pa. — A township employee was shot and killed inside a Pennsylvania municipal building Tuesday morning, officials said. A gunman walked inside the Paradise Township municipal building about 8:20 a.m. and opened fire, according to police and township officials.
State and local police rushed to the municipal building in the Pocono Mountains, about 100 miles north of Philadelphia, and took the suspect into custody without incident.
The victim was identified as Michael Tripus, 65, of Stroudsburg. The township’s website listed him as the sewage enforcement and building code officer. Police said David Green, 72, of Swiftwater, was taken into custody.
State police haven’t said what motivated the shooting, and it wasn’t immediately clear how or whether the Green and Tripus knew each other.
“That is something we’re still working on right now,” Trooper David Peters told reporters at the scene.
The victim was a longtime township employee, according to Gary Konrath, chairman of the township’s Board of Supervisors.
Konrath said he was not in the building at the time but spoke to the township’s executive secretary, who was.
“She’s extremely shaken up,” he said.
Konrath said she told him the gunman is “not someone they are aware of. No one appears to recognize the individual.”
“You say this a hundred times, but you wouldn’t think it would happen here,” Konrath told the Allentown Morning Call.
The township is in a rural area and has a population of about 3,200. It employs three full-time workers and one part-time worker in the office, and six on the road crew. The township building has no security camera, but there is a panic button that links to 911, according to Konrath.
Paradise Township is about 20 miles north of Ross Township, where a gunman opened fire at a Board of Supervisors’ meeting in 2013, killing three.
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7 Nooses Found in Trees Outside Mississippi Capitol Ahead of Senate Runoff
State and federal investigators are trying to find out who hung seven nooses in trees outside the Mississippi Capitol early Monday, a day before a U.S. Senate runoff that has focused attention on the state’s history of racist violence.
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety says the nooses were accompanied by handwritten signs referring to Tuesday’s election as well as to lynchings — most of them in the state’s turbulent past, but also one recent case that remains under investigation, of a black man whose body was found hanging in central Mississippi. The department posted photos of the signs on social media and sought information about them from the public.
One sign referred to the Tuesday runoff between appointed Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who is white, and Democrat Mike Espy, who is black. The sign also read: “We need someone who respects the lives of lynch victims.”
Another sign read: “We’re hanging nooses to remind people that times haven’t changed.”
Hyde-Smith has drawn fire for a photo showing her wearing a replica hat of a Confederate soldier, and a video showing her praising a supporter by saying, “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.” She said the hanging remark was an “exaggerated expression of regard” for the supporter, but the remarks drew sharp criticism in a state with a 38 percent black population. She apologized “to anyone that was offended.”
Espy is trying to become the first African-American U.S. senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction.
At a midday event, before the content of the signs was disclosed, Espy said he knew nothing about the nooses or signs. He said it would be “unfair” to make any connection between the items and Hyde-Smith.
Hyde-Smith campaign spokeswoman Melissa Scallan later condemned the nooses by saying: “Obviously, this behavior is offensive and has no place in a civilized society.”
Chuck McIntosh, a spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration, which oversees the Capitol, said the nooses and signs were found starting shortly before 8 a.m. Monday outside the Capitol in downtown Jackson.
The matter is under investigation by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, Mississippi Capitol Police and the U.S. attorney’s office.
“With our law enforcement partners, we are actively looking into these acts of hate and intimidation,” U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst said in a statement. “Let me be perfectly clear — there is absolutely no place in our state for these unacceptable symbols or tactics to intimidate others. If we find evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that a federal crime has occurred, these criminals will be swiftly prosecuted.”
Republican Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, who has an office in the Capitol, called the nooses and signs “reprehensible.”
Mississippi has a history of racially motivated lynchings. The NAACP website says that between 1882 and 1968, there were 4,743 lynchings in the United States, and that nearly 73 percent of the victims were black. It says Mississippi had 581 lynching during that time, the highest number of any state.
Civil rights activists were also beaten and killed in Mississippi as they pushed for African-Americans’ voting rights, particularly from the end of World War II until the 1960s.
Man stabs brother, sets fire to Suffolk County house while parents are home
DIX HILLS, N.Y. — A man stabbed his brother in the neck then set a fire inside a house while their parents were home on Monday, according to Suffolk County police.
An altercation between brothers, ages 30 and 32, ended with the younger man allegedly stabbing his older brother.
The victim was hospitalized in unknown condition.
The 30-year-old then set fire to the home on Northwood Court, police said.
The men’s parents were home at the time, according to police, who said they were not physically harmed but the mother was taken to the hospital for stress-related reasons.
Officers used a Taser on the 30-year-old while attempting to take him into custody, police said.
He was hospitalized, as is routine when a Taser is used, police added.
Doctor accused of impregnating teen he planned to marry
A Missouri doctor facing child pornography charges is accused of impregnating a 16-year-old girl whom he planned to wed, according to court records.
Dr. Ashu Joshi, who works at St. Louis University Hospital, pleaded not guilty to charges of production and receipt of child pornography and transportation of a minor across state lines for sex, the St. Louis Dispatch reported.
Details of the 46-year-old doctor’s alleged relationship with the Kentucky teen were made public last week after he was released from jail on bail.
Prosecutors allege that Joshi began a relationship with the teen girl after treating her mother as a patient.
The teen initially wanted to discuss becoming a doctor with him, according to officials, but later became his babysitter.
The girl’s mother told officials that she knew her daughter was “dating” Joshi, but didn’t approve of them having a sexual relationship.
The alleged relationship became known to authorities after the pair exchanged images containing child porn on Facebook, the St. Louis Dispatch reported. They allegedly traded hundreds of photos and videos, some of which showed the pair naked together, according to officials.
Investigators said Joshi asked the girl to marry him and she admitted to officers that he was the father of her unborn child.
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Gamer’s alleged rape of teen girl overheard on PlayStation
A video game player faces rape charges after he was reportedly overheard through his PlayStation console forcing a teen girl to have sex, police said.
Daniel Enrique Fabian, 18, was charged Wednesday with lewd and lascivious battery in connection to an incident earlier this year at his New Port Richey, Florida, home, news station WFTS reported.
Police said Fabian was playing “Grand Theft Auto” against another gamer online in June when he said he planned to “smash” a girl who was over his house.
The other player said Fabian left his gaming microphone on and he could hear the 15-year-old victim refusing his advances.
The girl reportedly told Fabian “no” four times, but he continued to have sex with her, according to an arrest affidavit.
About 15 minutes later, Fabian resumed the game with the other player, police said.
The victim told officers that she was sitting on Fabian’s bed when he covered her mouth with his hand and pushed her down to rape her. The girl completed a rape kit, which linked Fabian to the alleged crime through DNA testing, news station WFLA reported.
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